Phone Automation for WeChat Channels Publishing on Real Phones

WeChat Channels can only be published from the phone

Publishing to WeChat Channels has to be done on the phone. There is no web entry that can take its place. Every post walks through the phone interface, and that is especially painful when you are rushing to publish after midnight.

The flow itself is simple, and a lot of it repeats: pick the video, write the description, set the location, choose a cover, confirm who can see it. One post is manageable. With several phones and a regular cadence, doing it by hand is hard to keep steady. Options get skipped. You lose track of which phone already posted and which has not. When you are busy, the whole batch slips. WeChat Channels auto publish means turning those fixed actions into a flow that can be run again.

This is process automation. Topic, shooting, and copy still need a person’s judgment. The system takes content that is already decided and sends it out through the same steps.

A few traits have to line up before you build the workflow:

• It depends on the screen. Every step happens on the real interface, so the flow has to follow the button positions and order you see on your phone.
• The entry sits several screens in. Reaching the publish page usually means passing through a few pages. Miss one and the rest stalls.
• Some elements are hard to recognize. Icons and cover cropping can be missed by OCR or a vision model, so those spots need an image template.
• Devices differ. Phone models and system versions can change interface details. Validate the same flow on one phone first.

There is also waiting. Video upload and cover generation take time. The workflow needs an explicit wait, or a wait until the expected element appears, before it continues. Otherwise it taps the next step while the screen is still loading.

The whole job is interface work, so Conversation fits: you tell the AI in plain language to operate a real phone. No script is required. The AI looks at the screen, finds the entry, and works through the steps.

Freeze the publish steps into a workflow

Work with a fixed flow that has to run again belongs in a workflow. It stores the multi-step operation as a template. At run time you only pick the phone and the parameters.

1. Get one publish through first. Open a conversation, pick an online phone, and describe it in plain language: “Post this video from the gallery to Channels. The copy is…” If the request is unclear, switch to refine mode and talk the steps through with the AI before running.
2. Turn it into a workflow. Create one in the workflow library and build the steps on the canvas in the real order: start the automation environment, open the app, wait for the interface, enter the publish page, choose the video, fill the description, set location and visibility, choose the cover, submit, wait for the upload to finish. Common step types include “start automation environment”, “wait”, “open app”, and “gesture-swipe”.
3. When there are many steps, use AI workflow collaboration to generate a draft, then check each step. That is faster than building from a blank canvas.
4. Save and validate. Check that step links and parameters are complete. The status label shows whether this workflow can run.
5. Fill in image templates. For icons that are hard to recognize, go to Image Templates, crop a small image, write what it is and when to use it, then attach it to the workflow.
6. Name workflows by platform. Channels and other platforms have different interfaces, so each gets its own workflow. Put the platform in the name so later selection stays clear.

The full feature description is in the workflow overview.

How to manage several phones together

On the Channels side, there is often more than one phone. Devices can be managed like this:

Step	What to do	Point
Scan	Scan for phones on the Devices page	USB and WiFi phones both show up
Register	Add the device to the list	After registration it can be chosen reliably in conversations, schedules, and workflows
Alias	Give each phone a recognizable name	Clearer than remembering a serial number
Group	Group by purpose or owner	Workflows and schedules can pick devices by group

An online phone can run. An offline phone can only be viewed. Before publishing, confirm on the Devices page that the target phone is online.

Grouping is also how you select phones. A workflow can pick devices by group. To leave one phone out for a while, move it out of the group or disconnect it. The workflow itself stays as it is. Installation starts on the install selection page. iOS has a USB edition and a wireless edition. Android and HarmonyOS guides are still being prepared.

Read execution history, and prepare once before you start

The awkward part of automation is not knowing whether a run finished. iEasyRun Execution History records the result of each task, including the source, the status, the target device, and the error message. When a run fails, check along these lines:

Error direction	Likely cause	What to do
Device offline	The connection dropped, or the phone-side program is not running	Check USB / WiFi, then the Devices page and the install page
Workflow unauthorized / expired	The workflow state is wrong	Go back to the workflow library and read the status label
Image match or recognition failed	An interface element was not recognized	Add an image template, or check capability and model settings
Automation environment not ready	Phone-side setup is incomplete	Finish the setup from the install selection page

Look at execution history after each test run. Catching the problem early is easier than guessing afterward.

Once that preparation is done, later runs are reuse:

1. Install. Pick the matching method on the install selection page and set up the automation environment on the phone.
2. Register and group. On the Devices page, scan, register, set aliases, and group.
3. Save prompts. Save the refined publish description on the Prompts page so a similar task can reuse it.
4. Build the workflow. Follow the steps above to create a Channels publish workflow and get a test run through on one phone.
5. Choose how it runs. For a fixed cadence, put it on the Schedule page. For several phones together, dispatch by group.

The publish flow is simple. The hard part is making every run the same. After it is frozen into a workflow, what remains on the human side is the content and the cadence. Similar approaches on other platforms are in bulk Xiaohongshu posting and scheduled Douyin publishing. The software is completely free and runs on your own computer. Validate the flow on one phone you already have.